Rostock Friedrich-Franz train station
| Rostock Friedrich-Franz train station | |
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 Reception building, track side (as of January 2012)
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | former terminus and separation station |
| abbreviation | WRG |
| opening | 1850/1853 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Rostock |
| country | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 5 '7 " N , 12 ° 8' 41" E |
| Railway stations in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | |
The Friedrich-Franz-Bahnhof was the first train station in the Hanseatic city of Rostock on the edge of the old town. With the construction of today's main train station , it lost its importance. In 1905 the passenger traffic was stopped, since then the Friedrich-Franz-Bahnhof remained in operation as the Rostock freight yard until 1996 . The railway systems were dismantled in the early 2000s.
location
The station is located on the south-eastern edge of Rostock city center, near the Steintor and Nikolaikirche , just a few meters from the Warnow . The Bad Kleinen – Rostock railway reached the station parallel to the river from the south. Operationally, the station consisted of two parts, a northern (until the 1990s abbreviated as Rg) and a southern (Rgs). The northern part extended from Ernst-Barlach-Strasse about one kilometer south to the Stralsund – Rostock railway , the route of the Friedrich-Franz railway. There were connecting curves in the direction of Stralsund and Rostock Hauptbahnhof. The southern part, which consisted of four tracks, was further in the direction of the Dalwitzhof junction, where the Neustrelitz – Warnemünde line crosses. There were also connecting curves there.
The port railway began at the northern end of the station and led through Grubenstrasse to Rostock city harbor .
history
Friedrich-Franz-Bahnhof (until 1905)
The station was laid out on May 13, 1850 with the construction of the railway line from Bad Kleinen, as close as possible to the city center. In honor of the Mecklenburg Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II. It was named Friedrich-Franz-Bahnhof . The station building did not go into operation until 1853. In the same year the freight line to the city harbor was opened. As a result, a general cargo floor was built on the west side of the tracks south of the reception building, a loading lane on the east side of the tracks and a depot (later a depot) with an 8-hour roundhouse .
It was not until more than 30 years after the station opened in 1883 that Rostock's second railway line followed, the Wismar-Rostock Railway . In 1889 the Stralsund – Rostock railway was added. As a result of the construction of both lines, the tracks were expanded and rebuilt accordingly.
In the meantime, the Neustrelitz – Warnemünde (Lloydbahn) line had already been completed in 1886, creating a connection from Berlin via Neustrelitz to the Baltic Sea to Warnemünde. The Friedrich-Franz-Bahnhof was unfavorable for the continuation to Warnemünde. The Lloydbahn got its own station, called Lloydbahnhof , today's Rostock main station. In 1894, the Lloydbahn was also part of the Mecklenburg Friedrich-Franz-Bahn (MFFE), which was formed in 1889/90 as the Mecklenburg State Railway. The new company thus had to operate two large train stations in Rostock for both passenger and freight traffic. The Friedrich-Franz-Bahnhof was too small to take over all traffic, and the Lloydbahnhof had operational advantages as a through station. In the middle of the 1890s there were long debates between the various circles over the "Rostock train station question".
On November 22, 1894, the state parliament in Malchin decided to handle passenger traffic in the future via the Lloydbahnhof ( called Central-Bahnhof since 1896 ) and goods traffic via the Friedrich-Franz-Bahnhof. Overall, the development was good for travel to Rostock. In 1890, 14,769 passengers were counted at the later Central-Bahnhof and 196,232 passengers at the Friedrich-Franz-Bahnhof, compared to 503,651 in 1899 at the Central-Bahnhof and 2,289 at the Friedrich-Franz-Bahnhof. The few travelers there came from the trains from Stralsund, which, due to the lack of a direct connection at first, only reached the Central station after changing direction at Friedrich-Franz-Bahnhof. In 1905 the transfer of the Stralsund route over the route to Friedrich-Franz-Bahnhof was completed and passenger traffic through the Friedrich-Franz-Bahnhof was stopped.
Freight depot
From then on, the Friedrich-Franz-Bahnhof remained in operation as a freight yard. In 1924 it was equipped with three mechanical signal boxes of the Stahmer type, a fourth was built in Dalwitzhof.
In 1943 the reception building burned down after a bomb attack and was rebuilt without the former wealth of architectural forms.
In the 1960s, with the construction of the Rostock overseas port, a large freight and marshalling yard was built there. The inner-city freight yard remained in operation, even if considerations were made as early as the 1980s to discontinue the port railway as the city port. However, its importance had clearly declined. In 1975, 54 kilotons of goods were sent and 790 kilotons received; at Überseehafen station the corresponding figures were 7,501 and 1,484 kilotons; at Bramow station at 170 and 1,731 kilotons respectively. In 1985 the electrical contact line reached Rostock, and the freight yard was also electrified.
After the reunification in the GDR, freight traffic declined significantly, the port railway was discontinued in the mid-1990s and the importance of the freight station decreased rapidly. In 1996 traffic at the freight yard was finally stopped.
Already during the GDR there were efforts to build an S-Bahn station Ernst-Barlach-Straße close to the city center in the area of the Friedrich-Franz-Bahnhof . These plans were resumed in the 1990s. As part of the Rostock Local Transport Day in 1994, the S-Bahn trains from Warnemünde were extended there. For the occasion, the station was given its old name "Friedrich-Franz-Bahnhof".
After 2000, at the initiative of the railway, these plans came to nothing.
As part of the double-track expansion of the line to Stralsund in 2001, a dam replaced the bridge over the southern connection of the station, which was thus interrupted. At the beginning of the 2000s, the railway station's tracks were gradually dismantled. Some high-rise buildings, including almost all signal boxes, were torn down or fell victim to fire.
Todays situation
The tracks and other systems have all been dismantled. The station building, the signal box W3 and the building of the roundhouse are preserved.
A senior citizens' residence was set up in the station building and opened in 2009.
The goods floor is under monument protection, has been parceled out and converted into apartments.
The station area between Ernst-Barlachstrasse and Talstrasse was built with modern townhouses and has become a residential area close to the center. (As of July 2015)
An investor also planned to demolish the listed locomotive shed in order to build apartments there. This was rejected by the monument authority. The street names Bahnhofstraße , Am Güterbahnhof and Beim Lokschuppen still recall the former train station.
literature
- Lothar Schultz, Klaus Pfafferott, Hans-Georg Tack: The railroad in the Rostock city harbor. A journey through 140 years of railway and city history. Verlag Bernd Neddermayer, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-933254-96-2 .
- Lothar Schultz, Peter Wilhelm, Klaus Pfafferott: 150 years of the railways in Rostock. transpress, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-613-71124-9 .
- Lothar Schultz: 130 years of the Rostock Railway. German Model Railway Association of the GDR, 1979.
Web links
supporting documents
- ↑ a b Schultz, Wilhelm, Pfafferott
- ^ Course book 1905
- ↑ a b Schultz, 130 years ..., p. 10
- ↑ Schultz, 130 years ..., p. 31
- ↑ Bahn-Report , 4/2008, p. 42
- ↑ Ostsee-Zeitung , May 22, 2012